Entertainment

Suffering from the winter blues? Maybe you need to brush a little colour into your life?

Sofia Coppola’s poetic drama Somewhere won the Golden Lion for best film at the 2010 Venice Film Festival by a unanimous decision.

Pleasure Craft Theatre resumed performances this week of Dodgewood, the town with no shame.

Popular Victoria folk and traditional musician Oliver Swain visits the Waverley Hotel in Cumberland Feb. 1 at 8 p.m. to promote his new CD, In A Big Machine.

“There are too many great films to choose from” is the most common “complaint” heard at the World Community Film Festival.

Sarah Seads will share motivating tips and fitness advice from her new book, Fit & Free: Seven Steps to Achieving Fitness for Life, at Laughing Oyster Book Shop on Jan. 22.

Musicabilé will be in concert Jan. 29 at 7:30 p.m. at St. George’s Church at Sixth and Fitzgerald in Courtenay.

Although Comox Valley photographer Blair Polischuk captured a Hornby Island June evening in his black and white print, December is proving to be his lucky month.

Current Swell, a band based in Victoria, is in the foreground of the “new roots” music front pushing out of Canada’s West Coast.